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...issue in the present case, District of Columbia v. Heller, was the city's ban prohibiting ownership of handguns that were unregistered as of 1976 - a statute that, by effectively nullifying possession, ranks among the nation's stiffest. Dick Anthony Heller, a security guard, filed suit against the district after it denied him permission to register, and thereby keep, a handgun intended for self-defense within his home. A D.C. federal appeals court supported Heller on the grounds that the city's ban violated his Second Amendment rights. (See pictures of an ammunition plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Future of Gun Control | 6/26/2008 | See Source »

...cardigan sweater, telling them to set their thermostats at 68deg.F in winter to conserve oil. Carter was certainly right about that one - heating represents nearly twice (roughly 7%) the energy usage that air-conditioning does. By contrast, the Bush Administration has had a policy of malignant neglect, enunciated by Dick Cheney, who once called conservation a "sign of personal virtue" but not a national goal. "After Carter, sacrifice became a hot-button word," Schipper says. "But there's a reasonable position between sacrifice and just being foolish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kill Your Air Conditioner | 6/25/2008 | See Source »

...long as Democrats need him to hold on to power, Lieberman realizes that comments like these make him untouchable. "Without him we would not be in the majority," says Dick Durbin, the second highest-ranking Democrat in the Senate. "He votes with us on virtually every issue except for the war and, of course, his support for Senator McCain. There is disappointment, for sure, and many people have expressed concern about his role, but he's going to have to make that decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Democrat Crosses Party Lines | 6/22/2008 | See Source »

...Wanted Kevin Smith, director and comic-book-store owner Mike Richardson, founder of Dark Horse Comics WHAT Bone By Jeff Smith The Walking Dead By Robert Kirkman The Dark Knight Returns By Frank Miller Concrete By Paul Chadwick WHY The "fully realized adventure fantasy" is "Disney meets Moby Dick." "A chronicle of life after zombies have taken over. It should be an HBO series." "An intense, quasifuturistic, retired Batman with real-world issues." "A speechwriter is encased in concrete. Kafka meets Beauty and the Beast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Graphic Novels are Hollywood's Newest Gold Mine | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

...engaged in a cover-up" in the outing of Valerie Plame, the CIA employee whose identity was revealed as part of a White House effort to discredit her husband. What Conyers "suggests," however, may also be misleading. The book adds some new details about Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney's involvement in the Plame outing, but there's nothing there to build a case on. For his part, McClellan says he doesn't have much more to offer on the subject. "Anything of significance I know about it is in the book," McClellan told PBS's Tavis Smiley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will McClellan's Testimony Hurt Bush? | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

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